Controlling the dangerous classes : a critical introduction to the history of criminal justice /
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| Author / Creator: | Shelden, Randall G., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Boston, MA : Allyn and Bacon, c2001. |
| Description: | xiv, 322 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4334749 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: The History of Criminal Justice from a Critical Perspective
- Perspectives on Criminal Law
- The "Dangerous Classes."Outline for the Book
- 1. Perpetuating the Class System: The Development of Criminal Law
- The Development of Criminal Law
- Introduction: Nature and Function of Criminal Law
- Criminal Law in Ancient Times
- Criminal Law in Medieval Times
- Criminal Law as an Ideological System of "Legitimate" Control
- Emergence of the Concept of "Crime." Racism and the Law
- Controlling the Dangerous Classes: Drug Laws
- Whose Interest Does the Law Serve?
- 2. The Development of the Police Institution: Controlling the Dangerous Classes
- Early Police Systems
- The Emergence of the Police Institution in England
- The Development of the Police Institution in the United States
- The Rise and Growth of Private Policing
- The Growth of the Police Institution in the Twentieth Century
- Still Controlling the "Dangerous Classes" : the War on Gangs and the War on Drugs
- 3. Processing the Dangerous Classes: The American Court System
- Introduction
- The Development of the Modern Court System: The Colonial System
- Elite Dominance of the Legal Profession in Colonial America
- Processing Criminal Cases: The Justice of the Peace in Colonial America
- Hunting Witches and Religious Dissidents: Colonial Court Processes
- After the Revolution: The Establishment of the Federal System and the Supreme Court
- Post-Civil War Changes in the Court System
- The Jail: A Clear Case of "Rabble Management." The 1960s: The Warren Court and the Reaffirmation of the Right to Counsel
- Traditional versus Radical-Criminal Trial
- The Modern Era: The War on Drugs and African Americans
- The Ultimate Sanction for the Dangerous Classes: The Death Penalty
- 4. Housing the Dangerous Classes: The Emergence of the Prison System
- Part I. Early Developments of Imprisonment, 1600-1900
- Early Capitalism and the Emergence of the Workhouse
- Late Eighteenth Century Reforms and the Birth of the Prison System
- The Development of the American Prison System
- The Rise of the Reformatory
- Convict Labor
- Convict Leasing
- Part II. Twentieth Century Developments in the American Prison System
- Inmate Self-Government
- Classification, Diagnosis, and Treatment: The New Prison Routine
- The "Big House." The Emergence of the Federal Prison System and the System of Corrections
- The System of Corrections
- The Modern Era, 1980 to the Present: Warehousing and The New American Apartheid
- The American Gulag
- Some Concluding Thoughts
- 5. Controlling the Young: The Emergence and Growth of the Juvenile Justice System
- Pre-Nineteenth-Century Developments
- The House of Refuge Movement
- Mid-Nineteenth-Century Reforms
- The Child-Saving Movement and the Juvenile System
- Conceptions of Delinquency: 1860-1920
- Twentieth-Century Developments in Juvenile Justice
- Still Controlling Minorities and the Poor: Current Juvenile Justice Practices
- Giving Up on Delinquent Youth: Transfer to Adult Court
- 6. Perpetuating Patriarchy: Keeping Women in Their Place
- The Ultimate Punishment: A History of Women's Prisons
- The Emergence of Women's Reformatories
- The Role of Racism
- Controlling Women's Bodies and Sexuality
- Young Women and the Juvenile Justice System
- Women and Criminal Justice Today
- Sentencing Patterns, the War on Drugs, and Women
- Some Concluding Thoughts
- 7. A Look Ahead in the New Millennium: The Crime Control Industry -- Still Controlling the Dangerous Classes
- The Crime-Control Industry
- The Correctional-Industrial Complex: Cashing in on Crim
